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UNC trees are topic of exhibit, lecture

Posted on March 25, 2010March 25, 2010 by Staff

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Trees at UNC are the subject of a new exhibit that guides visitors across campus and back through time.

“Noble Trees, Traveled Paths: The Carolina Landscape Since 1793” will be on view in the North Carolina Collection Gallery of Wilson Library through May 31.

The free public exhibit presents photographs, drawings and publications that document campus trees and landscapes from the university’s earliest days through the present.

Inspiration for the exhibit came from the 2009 book The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Noble Grove: A Walking Tour of Campus Trees by Michael Dirr, professor emeritus of horticulture at the University of Georgia.
Dirr will lead a walking tour of the Carolina campus on April 22 at 3:30 p.m., leaving from the front steps of Wilson Library. At 5:45 p.m., he will speak about the book in a free public program in Wilson Library.

The exhibit includes reproductions of historic drawings and photographs that document the development of campus during the 19th and 20th centuries, along with the sometimes contentious efforts to preserve trees during campus expansions of the last 50 years.

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